[EBB Sightings] Owls in Tilden

I don't know if, at mile 1.5, with the eucalyptus forest just behind you, that location would be just _north_ of the euc forest, but if that is the case, it is a perennial locality to reliably sight Northern Harriers, including m/f pairs, esp. just off the east of and down slope of the Nimitz Way. Of course, that doesn't mean NH is what you saw.

Peter, Kensington

At 11:22 09/10/23, you wrote:
>I was running in early twilight along Nimitz Way, when I was surprised by too large grey-brown birds flying overhead past me.  This was at mile 1.5 in open scrub but with a eucalyptus forest just behind me.  They definitely weren't red tails or accipiters, I suspect they were Great Horned Owls but the heads were invisible by the time I noticed them.  Only other possibility I can imagine would be Northern Harriers which I haven't seen in that area, and they just looked too heavy of body and of flight.  Unforturnately I have no other details than the wings were angled slightly downwards as they glided, and that there were no obvious markings on tails or wingtips.
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>Jay Dodge, Berkeley